16 Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

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If you like houseplants with different leaves, then here are some interesting Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage that you will surely LOVE!

These Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage are the perfect way to add character to your rooms with other colorful or patterned houseplants!

Have a look at some awesome fuzzy foliaged houseplants here


Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

1. Monstera

Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Monstera deliciosa

The large glossy deep green leaves have a distinct cut and perforated, whereas the young foliage is small and uncut. You can grow monstera in water as well.

Learn growing split-leaf philodendron here

2. Stained Glassworks Kiwi Fern

Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Solenostemon scutellarioides ‘Kiwi Fern’

Kiwi fern shows off burgundy and plum narrow ruffled foliage with gold margins and fanciful cut. This variety can tolerate the sun very well.

3. Fruit Salad Plant

Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Monstera ‘Thai Constellation’

This beautiful variety offers large variegated white-green leaves with prominent cuts. The contrasting shades of green with splashes of white are eye-catching!

4. Xanadu

Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Thaumatophyllum xanadu

‘Xanadu’ is a compact evergreen shrub with glossy deep green attractive multi-lobed leaves. It prefers full sun to semi-shade.

Here are some great Philodendron varieties you can grow

5. Krauss’ Spikemoss

Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Selaginella kraussiana

Native to the Azores and eastern Africa, it has elliptical shiny green small leaves with a papery texture on red-brown stringy branched stems. It prefers bright shade and rich, acidic soil.

6. Swiss Cheese Plant

Monstera adansonii Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Monstera adansonii

The beautiful ornamental heart-shaped leaves are artistically pierced and have a vine-like tendency to climb if it finds support. It grows best in indirect light.

7. Tree Philodendron

Philodendron selloum Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Philodendron selloum

This beautiful Philodendron variety has dark green, glossy, large, and deeply lobed leaves. It grows well in bright indirect light.

Check out our article on growing Philodendron here

8. Snowflake Aralia

Trevesia palmata

Botanical Name: Trevesia palmata

‘Snowflake Aralia’ has no side branches. The entire plant is crowned with long-stalked 1-2 feet wide, deeply lobed, glossy green, and deeply cut leaves.

Have a look at the beautiful pictures of aralia houseplants here

9. Saw Palmetto Palm

Serenoa repens

Botanical Name: Serenoa repens

The blue-green leaves of this palm have multiple fine cuts from the upper side. It performs well in bright indoor lights and is very easy to maintain.

Have a look at the best dwarf palm for homes here

10. Angelica

Polyscias filicifolia Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Polyscias filicifolia

This shrub has a thick trunk and oval or rounded cut leaves with pointy edges. It is usually used to form bonsai. The plant can grow up to 2-3 feet.

11. Variegated Ming Aralia

Polyscias fruticosa 'Variegata'

Botanical Name: Polyscias fruticosa ‘Variegata’

The compound lobed foliage grows in a light green shade and turns deep green with beautiful white variegation. It can grow up to 6 feet tall with 3 feet spread indoors.

12. Furry Feather

Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Calathea rufibarba

Also popular as velvet calathea, the lance-shaped leaves have curved edges and purple undersides on long burgundy stems.

Check out more calathea varieties here

13. Variegated Monstera

Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

Botanical Name: Monstera borsigiana ‘albo variegata’

‘Albo variegata’ features variegated leaves in bright shades of pure white and deep green with fanciful cuts. It is a great display plant for any room!

14. Spider’s Web

Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web'
 

Botanical Name: Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’

The densely patterned white-green leaves possess prominent cuts, and their variegation changes according to the season and age of the plant.

15. Needlepoint Ivy

Hedera helix 'Needlepoint'

Botanical Name: Hedera helix ‘Needlepoint’

‘Needlepoint’ offers fanciful and elegant dark green leaves with 3 or 5 pointed and slender lobes. It looks beautiful in small pots and hanging planters.

Here are the best English Ivy varieties you can grow 

16. Dick’s Pink

Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage

 

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Dick’s Pink’

‘Dick’s Pink’ is a charming succulent with a rosette displaying blue to purple-grey with contrasting red ruffled edges that look appealing!

Check out our article on the best types of Echeveria here

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